Collaborative Balloons!

Collaborative Balloons

I and the Community

"Life is change. Growth is optional.

Choose wisely."

~ Karen Kaiser Clark

"Any company trying to compete must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee. A company's greatest

asset is its employees.” ~ General Electric CEO, Jack Welch

Seven Balloons of Leadership

Leaders need to make the right decisions, be open to new opportunities & ideas, respond effectively to change, prepare for it, & create.

All to operate as an elite unit.

*Speed *Surprise

*Confidence *Concentration

*Team Work *Assertive *Attitude *Empathy

* Transform management

systems

* Lower cost with increased

productivity

JOHN DEWEY OBSERVED

"A PROBLEM WELL PUT IS HALF-SOLVED."

A concept is to be

reduced to a singular essence.

EGOSQUISH OTHERS

POWERGREED

Ego

Power Over Others

.

egoPower WITH

Others

*Boundaries*Balance*Shared

Responsibility

“Look for the good and praise it.”

~ Unknown

Orwellian Metaphor George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Orwell depicted a harrowing totalitarian society, that watches its citizens obsessively and demands strict discipline.

• The focus is on the harms, inhibition and control.

Kafkaesque Metaphor •Franz Kafka's The Trial.

Centers around a man who is arrested but not informed why and is unable to learn much more.

•The focus is on the harms, a bureaucracy that uses people and makes important decisions about them, yet denies the people the ability to participate.

Literary Metaphor• George Orwell~1984

• Obsessively demands strict discipline

• Harms as inhibition and social control

• Franz Kafka ~ The Trial• Suffocating powerlessness

& vulnerability created by the system

• Harms are bureaucratic ones—indifference, error, abuse, frustration, & lack of transparency & accountability

“The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to

train himself.”~ Unknown

Complications• Information Processing• Affects Power in Relationships

between People & the Institutions • Creates a Sense of Helplessness,

Frustration & Powerlessness

Solutions Focus• Affect Social Structure by Altering the

relationships people have with the institutions that make decisions about their lives.

• Orwellian Metaphor—those of surveillance—and aren't adequately addressing the Kafkaesque Metaphor—those of information processing.

• Recognize the Problems• Existence• Acknowledge the Problems• Disclosure• Shared Resonance• Slow Accretion of a Series of Acts• Right to FLY!

“Whatever You Can Do or

Dream You Can, Begin It.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe